What We Know About You: Getting More From Web Analytics

A video recording of my first public speaking gig — at the REMIX10 conference at the start of June, a talk called What We Know About You: Getting More From Web Analytics. It requires that you install Silverlight on your machine to view. It’s a bit choppy (maybe something to do with Silverlight?) but if you have a decent broadband connection and a ton of patience (ie. you’re my mother) then it’s infinitely watchable.

That said, watching this was a little difficult for me, as all the things that I wish I hadn’t done jumped out at me and made me wince (lots of umms, pacing with my hand in my pocket, showing one slide but talking about something else, repeat questions from the audience for the recording). But given this was the first time I’ve done this, I’m still pretty proud of the end result, and it’s all useful to take note of for the next time I decide to give a presentation.

Watch other videos from REMIX10.

posted: 27.06. 2010, 00:11 Comment (0)

FullCodePress 2010: Go Aussies!

Well my Webstock Mini talk is out the way, and now I’m spending my time as a volunteer/reporter/fly-on-the-wall for the third ever FullCodePress event here in Wellington, New Zealand.

At a few minutes after midnight (local time), we’re past the half-way point and I can confirm that Team Australia (aka the Codaroos) are looking very together and have a great vibe going on. There was big drama a couple of hours ago when the team hit server issues, resulting in all teams getting an extension of one hour to the original deadline — a first ever!

There is a huge amount of support for the team, with photos popping up all over the internet of supporters who are wishing them well in their quest to wrestle Olympic gold from the CodeBlacks and Team USA.

You can follow the progress of Team Australia and all of the FullCodePress teams online via Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and on the official FullCodePress website.

You can find some great interviews with the team (James, James & Bjarni, Robyn) and you can also watch and compare screenshots of each team’s sites as they evolve (The Aussies have chosen to use github to publish their site, so you can even watch their codebase evolve as well, which is just plain awesome).

On behalf of the rest of Australia, let me say, Codaroos, that the hopes of a nation are riding on your shoulders. We wish you all the very best, and here’s to hoping you kick some Kiwi and Yankee butt!

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!

posted: 19.06. 2010, 22:21 Comment (1)

What? Webstock in Windy Wellington? Wow!

OK, so it’s not the full-blown Webstock conference, but a mini version (and adding “mini” to the title of this post would have blown my alliteration right out the window.)

Webstock Mini will run from 6pm to 9pm on the evening of Thursday, June 17th in Wellington, New Zealand. Yours truly is one of the speakers.

The event is sold out, I’m afraid. So if you missed out on a ticket, you’re just going to have to come back to this site every day to find out about my next speaking engagement. Blink and you’ll miss it! Seriously—two presentations in two countries in two weeks, people! At this rate I’ll be hosting multiple panels across multiple continents before the month is out!

Erm, maybe not.

But oh, hey—there’s a drinks tab at Webstock Mini. It’s going to be a rockin’ night and I’m looking forward to it. Plus it’s my first time to NZ, in town to help out with the third FullCodePress competition on the weekend following. Many thanks to the Webstock team for asking me to present (don’t worry—there are a stack of other great speakers, so even if I bomb then there are plenty of reasons why the punters are going to love it).

Seeing as the event is called Webstock Mini, I’m going to give a mini version of the talk I gave at Remix in Melbourne last week. I’ve called it Here’s one thing you probably don’t know about Google Analytics. It’s the best bits of my 45 minute version, condensed into 5 minutes.

If you’re at the event, and read my blog, be sure to come up and say hello!

posted: 11.06. 2010, 21:38 Comment (0)